Mohammed-Soliman/Coptic-Translator

A hybrid English ↔ Coptic (Bohairic / Sahidic) LLM translation system. # Coptic Translator A hybrid English ↔ Coptic (Bohairic / Sahidic) translation system. Instead of relying purely on an LLM, this project combines: - A **baseline neural translation model** (Hugging Face `megalaa/english-coptic-translator` and `megalaa/coptic-english-translator`) - A **structured lexicon and grammar layer** - **Retrieval-augmented translation** grounded in real Coptic corpora (e.g. Coptic SCRIPTORIUM) - An **LLM refinement / validation pass** - **Confidence scoring** based on dictionary coverage, corpus similarity, and grammar validation — not just raw model confidence See `ARCHITECTURE.md` for the full system design and phased roadmap. ## Status Baseline translation, the FastAPI backend, structured lexicon (Phase 3), corpus ingestion (Phase 4), retrieval (Phase 5), grammar checking (Phase 6), and combined confidence scoring (Phase 7) are all implemented - see `ARCHITECTURE.md` for how they fit together. - [x] Repo scaffold - [x] English → Bohairic / Bohairic → English translation (baseline model) - [x] FastAPI backend (`backend/api/main.py`) - [x] Structured lexicon + coverage scoring (Phase 3) - [x] Corpus ingestion + keyword search (Phase 4) - [x] Retrieval layer, keyword fallback when FAISS/sentence-transformers aren't installed (Phase 5) - [x] Grammar/surface-form validation (Phase 6) - [x] Combined confidence scoring (Phase 7) - see `backend/validation/scorer.py` - [x] Linked web interface - Translator, Lexicon, Manuscripts, and Lab Notes pages, styled after Ancient Egyptian/Coptic textile and papyrus art, served directly by the FastAPI app (Phase 8, in progress) - [ ] Fine-tuning on curated parallel data (Phase 6 roadmap item) - [ ] Real ingested Coptic SCRIPTORIUM corpus (currently just illustrative sample sentences - see `data/corpus/README.md`) A minimal Streamlit prototype (`frontend/app.py`) still exists as a quick dev sanity-check for the raw `/translate` endpoint, but the linked interface below is the primary UI now. ## Quickst …